Saturday, October 29, 2016

Former Federal prosecutor and astute analyst Andrew C. McCarthy has summarized the case against Democrat Hillary Clinton that she ran the United States State Department as a criminal
enterprise, selling out America to enrich herself and her husband, former Democrat president William Clinton. This sordid
episode in American history is far from over, as the fallout from FBI
Director Comey’s whitewashing of Hillary Clinton’s felony mishandling of classified
information has severely damaged his reputation and that of the FBI as a whole,
and has corroded the American trust in that storied institution. Comey yesterday announced that the FBI has
reopened the investigation, purportedly because of the discovery of new
evidence in the form of emails that somehow the FBI missed previously. In addition, as far as I know the FBI is considering
a Congressional request to open a criminal investigation into the Clinton
Foundation in light of the growing evidence it is a front for a criminal
enterprise.

As I have written previously, Democrat Hillary Clinton is the most
corrupt major American politician in American history, and the depth and
breadth of her corruption is breathtaking.
Furthermore, she is a congenital liar whose every word, including
"and" and "the" (to borrow a phrase), is a lie. From Whitewater and the "cattle
futures" Tyson bribe in her early days up to the bribery thinly-camouflaged
as “speaking fees” and Clinton Foundation “donations,” she has been a one-woman
criminal enterprise.

Some excerpts from the McCarthy analysis:

Whatever the relevance of the new e-mails to the probe of
Clinton’s classified-information transgressions and attempt to destroy
thousands of emails, these offenses may pale in comparison with Hillary
Clinton’s most audacious violations of law: Crimes that should still be under
investigation; crimes that will, in fitting Watergate parlance, be a cancer on
the presidency if she manages to win on November 8.

Mrs. Clinton appears to have converted the office of
secretary of state into a racketeering enterprise. This would be a violation of the RICO law —
the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act of 1971 (codified in the
U.S. penal code at sections 1961 et seq.).

Hillary and her husband, former president Bill Clinton,
operated the Clinton Foundation. Ostensibly
a charity, the foundation was a de facto fraud scheme to monetize Hillary’s
power as secretary of state (among other aspects of the Clintons’ political
influence). The scheme involved (a) the
exchange of political favors, access, and influence for millions of dollars in
donations; (b) the circumvention of campaign-finance laws that prohibit
political donations by foreign sources; (c) a vehicle for Mrs. Clinton to shield her State Department e-mail
communications from public and congressional scrutiny while she and her husband
exploited the fundraising potential of her position; and (d) a means for
Clinton insiders to receive private-sector compensation and explore lucrative
employment opportunities while drawing taxpayer-funded government salaries.

While the foundation did perform some charitable work, this
camouflaged the fact that contributions were substantially diverted to pay
lavish salaries and underwrite luxury travel for Clinton insiders. Contributions skyrocketed to $126 million in
2009, the year Mrs. Clinton arrived at Foggy Bottom [the State
Department]. Breathtaking sums were “donated”
by high-rollers and foreign governments that had crucial business before the
State Department. Along with those
staggering donations came a spike in speaking opportunities and fees for Bill
Clinton. Of course, disproportionate
payments and gifts to a spouse are common ways of bribing public officials —
which is why, for example, high-ranking government officeholders must reveal
their spouses’ income and other asset information on their financial-disclosure
forms.

While there are other egregious transactions, the most
notorious corruption episode of Secretary Clinton’s tenure involves the State
Department’s approval of a deal that surrendered fully one-fifth of the United
States’ uranium-mining capacity to Vladimir Putin’s anti-American thugocracy in
Russia. [...]

The WikiLeaks disclosures of e-mails hacked from Clinton
presidential-campaign chairman John Podesta provide mounting confirmation that
the Clinton Foundation was orchestrated for the purpose of enriching the
Clintons personally and leveraging then-Secretary Clinton’s power to do
it. Hillary and her underlings pulled
this off by making access to her contingent on Clinton Foundation ties; by
having top staff service Clinton Foundation donors and work on Clinton Foundation
business; by systematically conducting her e-mail communications outside the
government server system; by making false statements to the public, the White
House, Congress, the courts, and the FBI; and by destroying thousands of
e-mails — despite congressional inquiries and Freedom of Information Act
demands — in order to cover up (among other things) the shocking interplay
between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation.

Under federal law, that can amount to running an enterprise
by a pattern of fraud, bribery, and obstruction. If so, it is a major crime. Like the major crimes involving the
mishandling of classified information and destruction of government files, it
cries out for a thorough and credible criminal investigation. More important, wholly apart from whether
there is sufficient evidence for criminal convictions, there is overwhelming
evidence of a major breach of trust that renders Mrs. Clinton unfit for any
public office, let along the nation’s highest public office.